Samsung has traditionally made some minor UI tweaks to the Note devices every year, which are then adopted on the Galaxy S phones in subsequent updates. The Note 7, however, is expected to see more substantial UI changes. The so-called "Grace" interface for that phone has now leaked on video courtesy of HDblog.it.

Anyone who has used a Galaxy S7 knows that Samsung's new TouchWiz UI has shifted to using lighter colors (no more of that green on blue affair). The Grace UI seems to take that even further with a cleaner black and white look and blue accents throughout. Folders have gotten a new look with a full screen interface and blurred background when opened. Getting rid of the app drawer is pretty trendy right now, but thankfully there's still an app drawer in this leaked software.

The notifications and settings UI are probably the most drastically modified parts of the new look. Settings are denser, and at least in this iteration, it's just a single list without separations at the top level. The notification shade has redesigned toggles at the top with a second pull-down for an expanded list. The toggles have "drop down" buttons that open their own little quick settings UIs similar to the connection lists you get now for WiFi and Bluetooth on stock Android.

Keep in mind this is a leak of unreleased software. Things could change before it's final, but something very like this should ship on the Note 7 in a few months.

Comments

Italian motherfucker. Do you speak it?
Or are you one of those ignorant americans that don't know more than their own language?

Kanoosh

so americans have to speak more than their native tongue to not be ignorant? PFFT , that makes 80% of the world ignorant then.
you must be the ignorant euro that only knows how to speak 20% of each language (including your own).

mechapathy

It's people like you that make international travel difficult for Americans. So many people think we're all like you.

Kanoosh

then that would be there stupid fault not yours or ours or whatever.. international travel is only hard if you make it that way.. i've never had a problem with it, people in other countries love me (especially india).

Ishimaru

their*

Kanoosh

i wanted to fix that myself, but disqus won't let me edit my comment(s) on their own site..smh

but yea, i ment *their

philnolan3d

I think you mean "ignorant people".

Tommy Crosby

He is ITALIAN, the source is an Italian website, stop thinking you are the center of the world and everyone should bow to the mighty American Empire.

that doesn't even make sense. I'm butt-hurt about what exactly? And being a little bitch about what? grow a pair for what reason exactly? you want me to command all other nationalities to know English or something? There is a difference between "having a pair" and being just plan Dumb. I try to see all sides to a matter but I honestly don't get your deal...oh wait, NVM you're a troll

Kanoosh

apologizing on behalf of americans for someone that quoted a movie line? ..means you are being a little bitch about it because you can clearly see he is just f**king around..but you got butthurt and decided to take up the *helloooo* whaa whaaaaaa.. -_-
you are the one being dumb.

Actually No it was not clear he was "F**king around" I wasn't hurt by this comment in the least. My point was that Americans already have a bad wrap for being linguistically ignorant, this just perpetrates the stereotype. If you think I'm being a little bitch than fine, I don't have anything to prove to you, feel free to believe what you want. I, however think it is DUMB to expect other people in a different country to speak your language just 'cause, doesn't matter if it's a joke or not.

No I don't, but it probably has something to do with the fact that I was instantly insulted. That tends to get people to not understand your side of the story.

Kanoosh

"instantly insulted"...over the internet.
that's the sad part..smh

MattPortland

Get over yourself.

Kanoosh

never

C64

Prepare for the Dutch world domination. We're coming 😈

Kanoosh

DUN DUN DUUUUUN

james fuston

It's a quote from Pulp Fiction.

Kanoosh

too late, the butthurt train has arrived >.<

james fuston

Because OP used the quote in an inflammatory way. The response is totally deserved. I'm just clarifying because the Italian audience may not be aware of the source material.

Kanoosh

yea, it's sad you had to clarify for those that get so offended over the internet..
but i do agree that it was said with an inflammatory point.. but ppl getting butthurt over it are doing exactly what he intended..and also overreacting in the process is also just as dumb.

james fuston

What is it about communicating via the internet (vs. telephone or in person) that makes it more acceptable to be an ass, in your opinion?

Kanoosh

if you have to have someone explain to you why it's pathetic when people get butthurt over the internet .. then that's your fault.

james fuston

If you're making a claim and then demanding that other people have to explain your claim for you, you don't know how logic and debate work.

Kanoosh

lol internet salt is so sour these days.

TriguyRN

Maybe he is from the UK. Stop thinking that everyone is bowing to the mighty American empire.

kr3000

Looks excellent, hopefully stock android will follow.

Nerdy

Google always follows samsung..lol

senor_heisenberg

Better, but far too white for me. At least there are themes.

derp_cookies

Yo that's racist!

Slowpoke

If only they made just one TouchWiz to rule them all.

hc792

It looks so smooth and clean. TouchWiz has come a long, long way.

And the fact that they seem to have expanded Themes support is all the more exciting.

Fatal1ty_93_RUS

Should't every Marshmallow ROM support RRO / Layers theming out of the box anyway since it's baked into Android? I know Sony 6.0 based ROMs do

saf1927

Yes, AOSP supports theming and pretty much all the implementation of themes by other OEMs are based on Sony's effort. However, on AOSP phones you need root to push the overlays in the vendor directory, so you first have to root the phone.

dontsh00tmesanta

still bloated as frak

Ammar

"TouchWiz has come a long, long way"
How exactly? It's still laggy as shit compared to stock Android and it still has a duplicate app for just about everything.

Scott Maulo

Tell me what part of that video did you see any type of lag?? That's such a tired old comment!!!!

Ammar

And why do you think it's a tired old comment? Because it's true. And this is how it's always been. Looks smooth af in the video but use it for a few days and reality begins to set in. And this I'm speaking as a Galaxy S7 Edge and Nexus 6P user myself.

Scott Maulo

I've had the Note 5 since it became available and it's never lagged or frozen or anything!! I'm just saying that's the first thing people always say is how laggy Samsung phones are and I just don't see it!

Ammar

I can bet you a Nexus 6P will be smoother than your Note 5 in day to day operations.

Scott Maulo

You're probably right but I like the camera on Samsung phones. I've never had a Nexus phone so I can't compare them. Thanks for the information.

Nerdy

and dont have any rich business features as Note 5 ... just a big ass phone, nothing more

~At about the one minute mark when he drags the widget from the draw to the home screen. Noticeable glitch right there...

Alessandro

It's a beta UI Omg stop trolling

matus201

What duplicate apps? Samsung email has features for corporate email that Google's email apps don't; Samsung texting app is better than hangouts or Google messenger; Samsung Browser is much faster than chrome. Plus all of those apps integrate with features like Knox, private mode, Samsung's wifi sharing, extreme power saving mode etc. Honestly it's Google who is forcing duplicate apps on us, fortunately we can disable them.

Ammar

"fortunately we can disable them"

No. We should be able to UNINSTALL them the same way we can on a Nexus phone.

matus201

Two thoughts for you:

A) Good luck uninstalling Chrome, Hangouts, Google+, and all those other apps from your Nexus phone.

B) Why does it matter even in the slightest whether you disable or uninstall an app? There is no difference to the user. First of all, these apps are located on an unmodifiable System partition. For very good security reasons, this partition cannot be changed. When the app is disabled, its files simply sit on that partition, doing nothing.
Now maybe you want to argue that these files are taking space.. How much space? My S6 has 32GB storage, with ~25GB accessible to me. The disabled apps take MAYBE 200MB, but I doubt it's even close to that much. That is .8% of total storage size. The app data size of Google Chrome can take twice as much easily.
Maybe you want to suggest that those apps should simply sit on the data partition, that way we can all be happy... Well not really. Can you imagine a phone where the user can easily uninstall the only Calendar app on the phone? Or the only SMS app? Not all users are as technologically inclined as you are. Not all users would know why their phone is suddenly crashing all the time.

Ammar

Because when you disable them, their services and processes are still running in the background, consuming battery. There is no need for any of these to be system apps. Why? Make them available in the Play Store (Galaxy Store? Really?) and if someone REALLY wants it (doubt it) they will download it.

Sensible Orange

Apps that are disabled doesn't run in the background..... At this point, you're just as bad as the worst apple fan boy.

Ammar

You know next time you want to comment and be taken even remotely serious, leave the name calling out of it. What are you? 5 years old?

matus201

That is simply not true. Disabled app behaves exactly like uninstalled app, except that the application files are not removed. It does not have running services or processes.

Gjorgi Lazarovski

He's right tho, apps that are disabled don;t run in the background. Just go disable some apps on your device and let BBS take a log for the nigh. This way you can prove yourself wrong haha.

OH GOD! this whole "stock Android > all other user interfaces" BS has gotten so old that I could puke. It has gotten so ridiculous that it's much worse than Android vs IOS fanboys from each camp.

Give it a damn break already...

Nerdy

why is google forcing us to use their apps...its an open source software why then do that...what are manufacturers supposed to do, ship like the same thing with everyone else...i dnt use Google app, i dont use gmail app, newsstand, play music and all that ... Google must stop forcing us thats all

Gjorgi Lazarovski

As an open source software just build yourself an AOSP ROM and use whatever the F you want. If you want to use Google's Stock Android tho you'll have to use their apps too.

Nerdy

i dont want Stock... i want Touchwiz...and TouchWiz show come without those..

Looks like a hybrid of iOS and Android. Looks better than current TouchWiz, but worse than stock Android IMO. I really love the blurs in the UI though

siveZ

Blurs are not a part of Material Design thus can be considered 'out of spec'. I really dislike blurs.

Joseph Lampke

yah, but consider that we're talking about touchwiz.

matus201

Thanks god not everything needs to be "in spec" ;)

Sam Lehman

I would rather have a pure material design too, but if there's any way that Samsung bastardizes the aesthetic, I hope it's with the blurs

serendipity1002

seems like a mishmash of ios & samsung's own definition of 'material design', what's with the translucency and folder open animation in the launcher, the fat toggle buttons, the animation, the prevailing white interface.

T4rd

It's bad enough Samsung is super slow to update their devices, but there's even fragmentation between TW looks and features on the Note 4 and 5. TW still looks old on the N4 even after the Marshmallow update and they didn't bring over some of software features like the theme store, which is huge for some people.

Winston Purnomo

Well S6 and S7 S/W are identical. They look like theyre finally about to change - the Note 4 just happens to be the last device stuck with the old samsung

jokky

Which is a bastard move as even the mid range phone of 2015 had theme store

Winston Purnomo

No theme store. Just themes. A few preset ones.

jokky

Really? Then that is worse, it's like the carrot and the stick LOL

TechGuy22

looks bad they can still have touchwhiz with android skin untouched

jonathan3579

I don't have a problem with the current TouchWiz aside from some minor gripes but this does look like a marked improvement.

Jared

ToughWiz sounds a lot cooler than TouchWiz. Maybe AP is on to something.

smeddy

I still wish they'd offer black themes out of the box... A waste of good AMOLED screens

agreed, but at the same time people complain that touchwiz isn't more like AOSP I think they are trying to migrate more to an AOSP look which happens to be mainly white.

MattPortland

Dozens of free black themes.

Ammar

A lot of effort for something no one wants. How about making no effort, using stock Android looks and adding whatever S shit you want?

Sergiu Florin

man you have a problem...you wish the samsung hardware but hate the os? why do you bother commenting like every 5 comments and rattling about this. there are launchers you know? or rooting or themes or icon packs or anything. it is android man...don't like the look then change it....is it so cool to be a millenial f***wit?

I have to agree. I actually like Good Lock a lot better than I thought I would initially.

Pneen

The one thing I personally dislike are the notification. I prefer tap and for toggle holding down for advanced, even if it doesn't go directly to the settings. Otherwise looking good. But gotta say too much white.

H00pyFr00d

Lol. ToughWiz

MattPortland

Lol. H00pyFr00d

Grayson

Interesting. I'm seeing a couple N features in there. The launcher shortcuts when swiping up on an icon and the display density settings. Glad they finally implemented quick settings the Google way, where you can switch Wi-Fi networks and stuff directly from the notification shade. Not so crazy about the full screen folders in the launcher or the rearranged settings, but overall it's looking pretty good.

Martin

This is the best skin I've seen till now... Hate the Stock UI so boring and ugly... Good job sammy... took you couple years but.. It's your thing I guess doing things too late. Waiting for the Note 7, really tired from Apple. Need a change.

philnolan3d

That looks just like Samsung's Good Lock which is available in their app store.

saf1927

#WhiteUIYouMustDie

Deolan pather

Anyone notice when he opened the 'Note' app...the image of the note shown there was a curved note.If this indeed is the software then that is the exact note we are going to be getting... Note 7 edge confirmed

Vedang Jadhav

Looks like MIUI theme, which moves pretty away from Stock Android. Too much roundness in every UI component. Icons, options dropdowns. Sure looks smooth for a TouchWiz though. And yes, waayyy to much whiteness in the UI !!

Julian

Leaked? It has been available for the N920S since two weeks ago. It has been ported to the N920C/T/K/L etc and even to the Note 4 and 3!. It's not leaked, it was announced for select Galaxy Beta users and subsecuently quietly released to those people in South Korea. I'm using it but it's really laggy, the screen blurries everytime I get a Heads up notification and App Permissions are broken due to a non-working App Overlay switch. Still, the old UI was snappier and easier to use at least. The Settings app is even harder to use than the Tabbed one from the Galaxy S4.

Is the UX only available for Note series or does the S-series also get this in next update?

jobs plane

Frankly, I used IR blaster on my S4. But only for the initial few weeks after buying the phone. After that never used it. IR blaster not coming on S7 edge is not a deal breaker for me. and i even found some extrodinary information in the below link is that right ? y dont know check once http://www.galaxynote7.org/samsung-galaxy-note7-touchwiz/